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MetService NZ Rural Weather section
Posted: Wed 15/11/2006 15:31
by winzurf
FYI A new rural weather section has been added to the MetService website.
http://www.metservice.com/default/index ... ralsection
Posted: Wed 15/11/2006 16:49
by Weathermad
Yes they were promoting it at the A and P ahow in Chch today
Posted: Wed 15/11/2006 17:04
by spwill
I see they give the weather outlook by region which is much better than a general NZ outlook.
Posted: Wed 15/11/2006 20:46
by Weather Watcher
Posted: Wed 15/11/2006 21:11
by GraemeWi
Awesome! Just what I've been waiting for... 3 hours is too long when something is developing
Posted: Wed 15/11/2006 23:29
by Willoughby
Hey great to see our tax being put to good use!!
How often does the rain/wind champs model update? Is it based on a UKMO run? And how long does it then calculate for you guys to run this MM5.
Cheers
Posted: Thu 16/11/2006 10:31
by Weather Watcher
Foggy Hamilton wrote:How often does the rain/wind champs model update? Is it based on a UKMO run? And how long does it then calculate for you guys to run this MM5.
I think the rain meso-model updates 4 times a day and uses the US GFS model. It generally takes 6-8 hours after data time to produce the maps, but I'm not sure how often the images on the website update - winzurf will know the answer to that one.
Posted: Thu 16/11/2006 10:38
by jrj
A big tick to MetService
Posted: Thu 16/11/2006 11:42
by RWood
MetService seem to be stepping into new territory with the seasonal outlook pages...more competition for NIWA?!
Posted: Thu 16/11/2006 12:13
by Andrew Massie
Yep, I agree.. Impressive!
Posted: Thu 16/11/2006 12:44
by Manukau heads obs
good stuff metservide, hourly rain radar updates available on the web
Posted: Thu 16/11/2006 13:40
by Manukau heads obs
oh, and 1 hourly updated sat image too
(with animation as well
)
oh and yes the model run for rain forecast next days, fantastic....move the mouse down the times in the list...animation!
Posted: Thu 16/11/2006 16:12
by ricky
Does anyone know what model(s) they are using for that rain/wind forecast? I see it was quite a bit ahead of READY/GFS in moving rainfall further into Saturday here..
Posted: Thu 16/11/2006 17:10
by jrj
Does anyone know what the "H" with numbers underneath signify
Posted: Thu 16/11/2006 17:37
by ricky
looks like the total expected rainfall for each area maximum over the time period..
Posted: Fri 17/11/2006 08:51
by jrj
I assume that the purple line is expected snow areas
Posted: Fri 17/11/2006 16:51
by Fujita Phil
Hey I just like that I can use my mouse's scrolling wheel to forward or back the rain and sat maps